[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 140 (Thursday, July 24, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Page 34860]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2025-13996]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Docket No. RM01-5-000]


Electronic Tariff Filings; Notice of Changes to the Establishment 
of Effective Dates for Filings Initially Accepted With Indeterminate 
Effective Dates (12/31/9998)

    Take notice that effective July 28, 2025, the Commission is 
modifying its eTariff program as it applies to filings that establish 
effective dates in proceedings in which the Commission had previously 
accepted proposed tariff records with indeterminate effective dates 
(12/31/9998). The revised process is intended to improve the accuracy 
of the data in eTariff. Under the revision, filers need to use the same 
process to designate an accepted tariff record with a 12/31/9998 date 
as overtaken by events (OBE) as they currently use to designate a 
pending tariff record as OBE. Companies with outstanding obligations to 
make compliance or informational filings to establish effective dates 
for filings using 12/31/9998 dates should follow this procedure.
    The following provides a more detailed description of how the 
process will work. The need for this procedure arises when an eTariff 
filer needs Commission acceptance of its filing before it can establish 
an effective date for the tariff record(s).\1\ Under current 
procedures, the filer includes a 12/31/9998 placeholder date as its 
proposed record effective date in its initial filing (Filing 1). If the 
Commission accepts that filing, the tariff record(s) are then 
designated as ``accepted'' in eTariff.
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    \1\ A common example is when, a filer makes a proposal to 
establish a new service and does not know the effective date because 
it wants Commission acceptance of the filing before it makes the 
investment needed for implementation and does not know how long 
implementation will take.
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    After this revision to eTariff, once the filer knows the effective 
date of the tariff record(s) previously accepted by the Commission, the 
filer will be required to make a compliance filing (Filing 2) to 
establish the actual effective date for the tariff record(s) and to 
designate the original accepted tariff record(s) in Filing 1 as OBE. 
Under this procedure, the filer must make a compliance filing in the 
same docket as Filing 1 by using the associated filing identifier 
(associated_filing_id) at the filing level. The filing must include a 
tariff record(s) with the actual effective date(s) for the previously-
accepted tariff record(s) and that also includes, at the tariff record 
level, the associated filing identifier (associated_filing_id), 
associated record id (associated_record_id), and associated option code 
(associated_option_code) of each original tariff record accepted with a 
12/31/9998 date. Filers should note that this process can be used only 
to designate as OBE an accepted tariff record with a 12/31/9998 date 
and cannot be used to designate as OBE other accepted or effective 
tariff records.
    For more information, contact [email protected], 
[email protected], or the eTariff Advisory Staff at 202-502-6501 
or at [email protected].

    Dated: July 21, 2025.
Debbie-Anne A. Reese,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2025-13996 Filed 7-23-25; 8:45 am]
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